Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction
The Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, headquartered in Madison, is the state education and public library management agency in the state of Wisconsin. The department is led by the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, a non-partisan, constitutional officer elected every four years in the spring primary, six months after the previous year's presidential election.
Carolyn Stanford Taylor is the current superintendent, appointed by Tony Evers, the current governor of Wisconsin upon his assumption of the governor's office on January 7, 2019. Supported by public tax levies and the free school movement, public school attendance in Wisconsin has increased from 14,000 students in 1846 to 870,470 students in the 2011-2012 school year.
